[governance] People with disabilities

[Deirdre Williams]

So lets do it :-)
Deirdre

On 17 November 2014 18:51, Lorena Jaume-Palasi <lorena at collaboratory.de>
wrote:

> Oh, I somehow oversaw the rest of the thread. We already have criteria
> like gender and geography with regards to the candidates election. However
> there are other criteria which the civil society explicitly supports but
> does not use as a criterium for the elections at the MAG (e.g.
> dissabilities, youth). Imo it is a question of coherence to do so. It
> should not be a fortuitous factor to have someone at the MAG representing
> people with dissabilities, or the youth.
> Regards,
> Lorena
>
> 2014-11-17 23:41 GMT+01:00 Lorena Jaume-Palasi <lorena at collaboratory.de>:
>
>> Excellent idea! I support it! Could we please also include the necessity
>> of having a permanent seat for the youth as well?
>> Warm regards,
>> Lorena
>>
>> 2014-11-17 16:07 GMT+01:00 Judy Okite <judyokite at gmail.com>:
>>
>>> Thank you All,
>>>
>>> for your contributions and support, I highly appreciate it!
>>>
>>> Indeed to have the persons with disabilities voices and concerns raised
>>> in these forums is important,  but the utmost importance is to have them
>>> involved, be part of the process, be part of the team.
>>>
>>> Could we have this in signatures and forward it to the secretariat to
>>> have this discussed as part of AOB in the December meeting?
>>>
>>> De, whats your thought?
>>>
>>> Kind Regards,
>>>
>>> *'Chance Favors the prepared mind'* - Louis Pasteur
>>>
>>> On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 3:44 PM, Remmy Nweke <remmyn at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Let me add my voice to Deidre's narration.
>>>> Yes we often forget those with disabilities and I think now we are
>>>> reminded of it, thus imperative we all support the call for inclusion. May
>>>> be pass that as a resolution to make or have a rep from them at part of MAG
>>>> process.
>>>> Thus should also apply to member nations too that way we will no longer
>>>> forget.
>>>> Nice day all.
>>>> Remmy Nweke
>>>> @ITRealms
>>>> A member of DigitalSENSE
>>>>
>>>> Sent from my Windows Phone
>>>> ------------------------------
>>>> From: Deirdre Williams <williams.deirdre at gmail.com>
>>>> Sent: 14/11/2014 15:01
>>>> To: Internet Governance <governance at lists.igcaucus.org>
>>>> Subject: [governance] People with disabilities
>>>>
>>>> Let me add to Lorena's suggestion of a youth category, (made on the
>>>> Bestbits list this morning) the need to have a constant voice for people
>>>> with disabilities. Judy Okite has provided this for the last few years, but
>>>> she has finished her term of appointment. She made this suggestion herself
>>>> at the last MAG meeting in Istanbul. Since one billion people around the
>>>> world suffer from some disability, and the Internet can offer considerable
>>>> relief for them, they are the holders of a very significant "stake".
>>>> Sadly it is easy to forget if one does not suffer from a disability
>>>> oneself, which is why it is so important to have a dedicated voice for
>>>> these stakeholders in all such groups.
>>>> Deirdre
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> “The fundamental cure for poverty is not money but knowledge" Sir
>>>> William Arthur Lewis, Nobel Prize Economics, 1979
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